SHIPBUILDING INCREASE.
07.000 TONS IN MAY. GREAT SAVING OF TIME. A. and N.Z. LONDON", June The Admiralty announces that 197.274 tons of merchant shipping were completed during Mai , compared with 111.533 during April. It comments that this satisfactory output is a great credit t" the whole industry, especially to linns engaged 111 fitting out. vessels. The efforts to 1,-ilui the period between launching and completion have pioduced satisfa — tory results, the average time, of fitting out being considerably reduced. For example, a 5000-ton steamer was completed 19 days after being launched. The accelerations of fitting out increased the output in May.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16870, 7 June 1918, Page 5
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101SHIPBUILDING INCREASE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16870, 7 June 1918, Page 5
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